Mayor Councillor Martin Cartwright has made an appeal for people in the borough to support The Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal this weekend.

He said: “The Royal British Legion provides all forms of help to our ex-servicemen and women and their children. Many ex-service personnel require their support, not only as a result of action in World Wars One and Two but in theatres of war right up to present day.

“I hope to meet as many of you as possible at the Remembrance Sunday parade and service being held on Sunday at the Memorial Gardens in Argents Mead at 10.55am and anyone attending is respectfully asked to be at the gardens by 10.30am.”

New organisers for the Barwell, Andre Wheeler and Barry Granger, are planning to make the village’s parade and service a tribute to their predecessor Gordon Spring who died in May, aged 90.

Andre said: “He did the job for 40 years and hopefully we can do him proud. Everybody is welcome.”

The parade will assemble at Byron Street at 10.15am to process to the cenotaph on Church Lane. During the procession under parade marshall Roger Burrows, a salute will be taken by the deputy lord lieutenant of the county, Dr Leonards.

At the war memorial at 10.50am there will be a short service taken by rector Rev Philip Watson during which wreaths will be laid, followed by another short service in St Mary’s Church.

In Earl Shilton, the churches are holding a united service in the Methodist Church on Wood Street prior to wreath laying ceremonies at the nearby war memorial as the town always does at 11am on November 11, Armistice Day, which this year coincides with Remembrance Sunday.

Burbage’s service at the war memorial will be conducted by the Rev Barry Jacques of the Congregational Church.

Members of the Leicester branch of the Royal Marines Association will again be holding their traditional service at St Mary Magdalene Church, Peckleton.

Stoney Stanton has its customary parade service at 10.50am, with everyone gathering at the war memorial for the Act of Remembrance. Following this, the main part of the service takes place in St Michael’s Church.

Reader Liz Vernon said: “This has become very much a village service over the years, with the children and young people of the uniformed organisations joining members of the village community, both young and old, in reflecting on war and the damage it inflicts.”

The congregation of the Methodist Church will also join everyone at St Michael’s for this event.